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Year: 2012 (Page 3 of 5)

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June 16, 2012 / / 2 Comments

It’s been more than a week since I applied for a broadband connection from Airtel. All my documents submitted. No response yet. All I am doing these days is calling the customer care and giving complaints. All they do is reply with a vague message saying that there is some technical issue and that they will resolve it soon. But how soon, no concrete answer. What’s the issue? No concrete answer 🙁 I am almost tempted to go for a data card but having enjoyed the benefits of broadband connection for over a year at Hyderabad, my logical mind chides me and asks me to be patient.

I miss blogging, reading blogs and idling away on the internet. For the past few months, I had the option but life was tossing me so much around and I didn’t write or read. But now, I am settled in Bangalore and I want to read/write but Airtel makes sure that I don’t get to do it 🙁

At uncle’s home for the weekend. The first thing that I did after coming here is write this post. My blog is filling up with excuse posts and comeback post. I wanna break that and start writing like I used to before. So praying for Airtel to be graceful enough. Would you  too please pray for me?

Until later (I get an internet connection) 🙂

P.S: Off to read and comment on all the blogs I follow 🙂

P.S.S: I really like that human verification thingy that I reply to comments without logging in on purpose 🙂 Hope you like it too 🙂

When you Change, Or not..

June 5, 2012 / / 10 Comments

Have you ever wanted change so much that you feel like you cannot spend another second in your current stand and want to move on immediately? And on the other side of the coin, have you ever felt so much is changing that you wanna settle down soon and be comfortable? Yeah, if you have experience both of these situations, you would know what it takes. At these times, you would search a balance and drift along the thin line between wanting more and settling down. Why I am writing about this now is I have been in both these situations very recently and found out what kind of survival instinct it took for me to hold on.

So I thought I would pen down my musings on that in the hope that someone might find it useful. Human mind is very fickle and you know that. So look out for yourself, always. When you are getting really comfortable and having a nice lie down, enjoy it and at the same time tell yourself that this cannot last forever and do something different that gets you out of the stagnant mode. This gyan/ self-enlightening will help you avoid the desperate phase which comes after a while.

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The converse is also true. When you feel too much is changing, take a time-out and enjoy a simple thing patiently. That simple thing might even be the gorgeous view that you have when you stand on your balcony with a cup of hot coffee at 7 o clock on a misty morning. Forget about everything else and just enjoy that moment. Enjoy a lazy day or a late dinner with your friends. Drop everything else. Trust me, it works.

Find a source of happiness that is not based on other factors, i.e., do not set conditions for your happiness. Try to be happy irrespective of what happens or not around you. This is a very difficult thing to do. However hard I tried, I couldn’t keep it going for more than a few days. I am still trying to capture this unconditional happiness and bring it into my life. But I have seen stronger-willed people carry out this and achieve a balance in their life. So, I believe it is worth a try.

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Last but not the least, accept that how hard you try to make your life a smooth-running-machine, it invariably gets stuck somewhere at times and makes you take the toll. You gotta accept that life likes to strikes you straight in the face sometimes or even often. This acceptance at least helps you face it when it comes rather than making an unexpected mess. It is just so true that Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. There is no way to go about it except accept it.

As I draw to an end, I request you not to take this as an advising post/a philosophical post. It is not. It is just a few things strung together. The few things that came out of my recent discoveries, recent attempts to straighten my life, recent turns on my roller-coaster. I just penned them down in the hope that it will help someone when they come to this turn besides serving as a written reminder to me.

Until later 🙂

The journey to the hundredth

May 23, 2012 / / 8 Comments

Here is the century of little pieces that I have written as posts, starting from my college final year days till now. A little of this and a little of that. Starting out as an amateur girl who writes about the silly incidents that she faced at her internship to the girl who has discovered some depths of reading and writing and is able to relate to it better than before.

This blog has been an incredible friend, teacher in my life so far. The best thing that this blog has taught me is to do things because I like to do and not because someone else likes to. I know I never write much of a post on any current affairs or a similar genre. My posts always were personal, a little expression of my feelings, musings etc and some abstract thoughts penned down that helped me see certain things clearer. It was different that my posts were not targeted for an audience but I just told myself that I will write what I want to even if it is crap. Eventually blogging fed my desire to become a better writer and I am thankful for that.

It taught me that becoming a better writer is what matters and getting published is just an extra bonus because that’s how my heart looks at it. I have moved around my blog so much before finally settling here and have been on breaks that never seemed to end. But I have always come back to this space. This is my wonder-world where I always come back. I thank all the readers who have supported me unflinchingly, pouring in their thoughts that have made many of my best days 🙂 This blog has been a better friend than I initially thought it would be. Supporting my pace and enabling  me for more. It has been a kindle to nurture my passion for the language.

This journey to the hundredth post has been fun even if it was slow. And with this hundredth, I have promised myself not to force myself to write just because it has been a while since I posted anything. I will write because I feel like doing so. I have done this in the past too, but I admit, there has been times when I blogged because I wanted to bridge the gap. And I am going to stop doing that. That just doesn’t feel right. Hope my fellow bloggers will agree as I know for a fact that they too feel that writing should not be imposed.

Lastly, I have finally been welcomed into the warm extended arms of the Bangalore city. Settling down is taking its toll but it comes with the package. The happiness has not ebbed out fully and I am enjoying this 2nd chance at a little something called life 🙂 With that last note and a thank you for your support, I leave you now. I will come back to start the journey to the 2nd century and so will you, if you liked my 1st century 😉

Until later 🙂

Comeback :)

May 16, 2012 / / 9 Comments

This post is to announce the dramatic come-back of Keirthana 😉 I have been through a lot in the past few months, which I am not going to list here. This post is just for the good news 🙂

Number one on the list is that finally destiny allowed me to answer the call from Bangalore city and hence I will soon be saying good-bye to Hyderabad and stepping into a new phase. I can say life gave me a second chance and hell, I am going to make the best use of it. 🙂

The next good news is that I bought a new laptop after a long-lasting relation with my Acer Aspire 4720Z. This time it is HP pavilion G4 🙂

The last but not the least is I will be back to blogging and reading the blogs. I have not even been reading the blogs I usually follow and I sincerely hope that all my fellow bloggers and readers forgive me for the same.

So, in a week’s time, this blog’s hundredth post will come in its deserved grandeur, symbolizing the re-birth of myself and my blog after a long struggle 🙂 See ya all soon in a week 🙂

Until later 🙂

P.S: This is not at all how I imagined writing a comeback post and that too, when I have achieved what I wanted for so long, but to hell with it. I am way too thankful and happy to care about all that.

A thin line

March 26, 2012 / / 12 Comments

Pre.S: I have written something that makes complete sense to me but that might not be the case with you. Now, you cannot say that I didn’t warn you. Read at your own risk. 😉

A thin line. That’s all there is to life. Between every pair of opposites. Between happiness and sadness. I look through the frame and see how a few words can turn me into the most happy person on earth and how the lack of them makes me feel that life sucks big time. A thin line between comfort and discomfort. I see how 2 strangers who are going to share my room for the next weeks make me so comfortable as opposed to my normal discomfort in such cases. I also see the reason that is behind this, which is, I have experienced what it is to be lonely. And so now I appreciate even the strangers’ presence and constant babble. A very thin line between love and hate. I can see how I can so easily hate something that I love very much. A very thin line between feeling assured and anxiety. That thin line’s timing is less than a second. A blink is all it takes to make you feel assured and vice-versa.

A simple “I am there for you” can wash away the emptiness that is eating you from inside. Weakness and strength-separated by a thread. When I feel so weak, apparently I end up showing more strength. Nothing but survival instinct. Looking back, my most feared moments have proved I have been the bravest in my life during those moments. How mingled tears and laughter are. You cry when you are really sad and you cry when you are really happy. It is the threshold that when tipped over thrusts you into the opposite dimension with full force at a speed that’s so fast that you never know what hits you. A smile turns into a frown in a matter of a second. Darkness and light are reversed with one flick of a switch, even in our minds and not just in the outside world.

Always at the brim. Ready to overflow. One more drop, the tank starts flowing and never stops. It is always the way with emotions. There is no mastering them. If you think you have mastered emotions, it is just that you have not met your match and that’s why. When the tipping point is crossed, there is nothing to do but to tip over and fall headlong into the positive pit or the negative pit. Which you fall into is decided by life. Either way both pits are bottomless.

Until later 🙂

Post.S: If you understand what I have written, well, I am glad that there is one more person who feels so. If you don’t get it and think “what a load of crap!”, well, I apologize.

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